If you plan to start a new business or already have but you don’t have an office or lab space, why should you consider working with a small business incubator? An incubator is an organization that offers assistance and resources to help newly-formed businesses get started and supports them as they move forward. Small business ...
Let’s be honest, it’s always been difficult and now it seems even trickier to get a job in academia with a postdoc. Ending up as a tenured professor is just not in the cards for the majority of Ph.D.s. “In 2020, only 10% of engineering Ph.D. graduates and 16% of those in physical and earth ...
The process of opening a small business is already stressful enough without even worrying about how to fund it. But it’s good to start thinking about business costs early in order to know where the money will go. Sammi Caramela, a Business News Daily contributing writer, said in an article to “be realistic” when considering how much starting a business is going to cost. She mentions that ...
When the world came to a halt in 2020 due to COVID-19, innovation moved forward as normal day to day operations went virtual. Small business incubators like the University of Houston Technology Bridge, The Cannon and The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, have found that, even during a lockdown, new innovations and leading-edge technologies ...
“Teamwork makes the dreams work”. The well-known phrase has been overused as a company motto. Yet, it remains true and always will. Haven’t heard it? Maybe you’ve heard, “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself,” a quote by Henry Ford. Or maybe, “differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our ...
Beyond their education and research missions, universities across the nation have turned research discoveries into big business. In addition to protecting intellectual property from faculty discoveries, universities build and support startup pipelines to help researchers commercialize those technologies. However, there are a few misconceptions when it comes to university tech transfer offices that keep faculty ...
It started with prunes. Long before Silicon Valley was the innovation capital of the world, it was a giant valley of fruit trees and verdant hills. The primary crop in the then called Santa Clara Valley was the French plum, which was sun-dried to turn into the valley’s most popular export and métier: prunes. By ...
The road to the next life-altering discovery, invention or device often begins with university-imagined Intellectual Property (IP) and ends when an outside company makes the investment to productize the discovery. Is there enough emphasis placed on this pipeline nationwide? The more one looks at this complicated question, we see there are numerous problems; in a ...
What to know about IP theft Sure, there is a danger in sharing your ideas. There is always a risk of intellectual property theft. But that’s not what cripples entrepreneurs from moving forward. It’s the fear itself that keeps entrepreneurs from growing their company and sharing their ideas. They hear horror stories of IP theft ...
There’s something happening on the UH campus. Just over the freeway, on the other side of the tracks, there’s a part of UH that is setting Houston’s tech and science world aflame. The Technology Bridge. A place where academia meets the market thanks to a program designed to connect both worlds: the Connectivity Program. The ...
A startup accelerator provides promising companies with an opportunity to boost their chances of marketing their technologies. These programs help small companies pivot their technologies strategically, interface with industry sectors and engage with mentor network to better pitch their ideas to the market. Unfortunately, most startups will never have the chance to participate in an ...
When looking out over the commercialization landscape, the vast space a product has to travel from discovery to the marketplace appears to be growing.
